Last night, late, we ended up at Wit’s Inn for pizza, and T said that Bush was his man, his boy, his homie. G kept saying, no he’s not. And he kept saying, yes, he is. So T said that he thought Bush would go down as the best president the U.S. had ever had. Was I aghast? Yes, but I believe everyone is entitled to their own opinion and if you give me a…
I celebrated the milenium at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco listening to Super Diamond. Last night, G had a date with T and I went over to have cocktails with them at G’s house. After a martini, we put on Neil Diamond’s Kentucky Woman and I don’t know – we just started dancing. Girl, you’ll be a woman now. Cracklin Rosie. And then Bonnie Raitt came own singing “I can’t make you love me,”…
As I walked the Bean around the bayou this morning – a glorious morning I might add – I noticed a cat stalking a squirrel. Then the cat took off and the squirrel took off up an old oak tree that is on the corner of Harding and Moss. The cat came down after climbing a few feet. Then it looked around for another diversion. In back of the LaLa, my neighbor had removed my…
Or I can see clearly now? Which is it? I got a lot of my ducks in a row today – talked to the stained glass people about getting colored glass for my pantry doors, the ceramic people about the LALA for the front walkway, went by and measured the living room for my furniture, talked to Peter who was there painting the blue ceiling in the den. Then I went by Swirl and Beth…
K, my carpenter, called from Atlanta, where he went for Thanksgiving. He said he was standing in the midst of a forest and wanted to cut down a big old Christmas tree for me and bring it back to New Orleans for me to put in the LaLa. I said that’s very nice of you, but I’m Jewish, I’ve never had a Christmas tree.
A week ago when I was speaking to my mom I said well the baby naming is at 6:15PM so you don’t have to worry about getting off of work. She said, “I am hoping I can be there.” I said, what?, you better be there. We’re having a double baby naming for my two great nieces that were born within five weeks of each other. In the equal opportunity new Jewish life, girl’s get…
Mom won a bike in a raffle. Since she’s not going to ride it and I wanted a spare for visitors, I told her I’d take it. The hitch was I had to drive to Raceland to get it. When mom evacuated with her patients during Katrina, she slept on a floor with 20 of the 120 rerouted to a facility in Houma. The nursing home was in Harahan and it was destroyed. So the…
Woke up to that Eli’s Coming feeling and so laid in the bed with the pillow over my head. The house, the house, the house. Here it is the last few miles of the house marathon and I’m starting to limp. I want to get in the truck and head straight to Guadalajara and don cut offs and open beer bottles with my key ring. And start smoking again. So I tossed and turned and…
I had an inner debate going on after sort of embarrassing myself the other night – I wanted to apologize to the person I was with because I felt a little, well, untoward. E suggested I apologize to myself instead. So I thought about what I really was feeling and decided I have nothing to apologize to anyone for, but I would forgive myself for not behaving as I would have liked to under the…
I had the BEST day with my family! My oldest brother and his five daughters and six grandchildren and my youngest brother and his entire family were in town and we had the most awesome time together. My sister-in-law, Kim and I took the new great nieces, Abby Lane and Rease, out in their strollers and walked up and down the front porch, back and forth, a million times, because there are no sidewalks in…